Unified Public Drone Operators Group

The Fort Bend County Office of Emergency Management is hosting a Part 107 training class at the Fort Bend County Fairgrounds on December 3-7. The class will cover all the materials on the FAA’s Part 107 exam (and includes the testing and licensing fees and all test-taking logistics) and is offered by world-class disaster-response professionals who do not just teach to the test. Each agency and department will need to fund the cost the class participants at $1200 per person.

Similar classes have been offered in the past and our staff enjoyed the hands-on approach, the time spent on complicated topics like airport operations and sectional charts, and the real-world emergency management experience of the instructors.

This class is being offered by the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue and the Florida State University’s Center for Disaster Risk Policy.

Thursday and Friday are reserved for FAA testing and hands-on flight training, and on Thursday the Drone Operators Group will join the class at the fairgrounds for flight practice. You will complete the course with valuable knowledge, experience, and a FAA sUAS pilot’s license.

For more information about the class, view the flyer: Syllabus – UAS Part 107 Training (note: this is the syllabus from the last class, course will be same but the dates are as reflected above).

To register for the class, view the registration page on our website.

This class is capped at 16 participants and we have some per-registered; the remaining seats will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.

Fort Bend County will be hosting drone flight practice tomorrow, November 7 from 8:30-11:30.

This is a group of Part 107 and Public COA drone operators within Fort Bend County which come together to share insight and support each other in disasters and meets regularly to practice sUAS flights in a safe environment in a judgement free zone.

Please plan on joining us if you’re free, and bring your sUAS with charged batteries. We’ll bring cones and other supplies. We will be meeting at the Fort Bend County Fairgrounds (4310 Hwy. 36 South, Rosenberg, TX 77471).

If you can’t make this flight, please plan to join us for later flights; for more information about this group and our flight schedule visit the Fort Bend County Unified Public Drone Operators Group page.

Due to lack of staff availability, this mornings flights are cancelled. Please join us in November when everyone has returned.

Our regularly scheduled sUAS flights for Wednesday October 24 have been cancelled.

Please join us for the last week of October on the 31st from 0800-1130 at the FBC Fairgrounds

This is a group of Part 107 and Public COA drone operators within Fort Bend County which come together to share insight and support each other in disasters and meets regularly to practice sUAS flights in a safe environment in a judgement free zone.

Please plan to join us for later flights; for more information about this group and our flight schedule visit the Fort Bend County Unified Public Drone Operators Group page.

Our regularly scheduled sUAS flights for Wednesday October 17 have been cancelled.

We will be meeting instead at the Emergency Operations center at 0830 to discuss the County’s upcoming sUAS purchases.

Please join us for the rest of the weeks of October:

• October 24, 0800-1130 @ FBC Fairgrounds
• October 31, 0800-1130 @ FBC Fairgrounds

This is a group of Part 107 and Public COA drone operators within Fort Bend County which come together to share insight and support each other in disasters and meets regularly to practice sUAS flights in a safe environment in a judgement free zone.

Please plan to join us for later flights; for more information about this group and our flight schedule visit the Fort Bend County Unified Public Drone Operators Group page.

NOTE: Apologies for the late notice, this draft has sat in Jetty for a week because I thought I had already sent it. My apologies. -LM

Due to the ongoing County Fair, sUAS flights for Wednesday October 3 have been cancelled.

Please join us for the rest of the weeks of October:

• October 10, 0800-1130 @ FBC Fairgrounds
• October 17, 0800-1130 @ FBC Fairgrounds (sUAS purchase discussion in addition to flights)
• October 24, 0800-1130 @ FBC Fairgrounds
• October 31, 0800-1130 @ FBC Fairgrounds

This is a group of Part 107 and Public COA drone operators within Fort Bend County which come together to share insight and support each other in disasters and meets regularly to practice sUAS flights in a safe environment in a judgement free zone.

Please plan on joining us if you’re free, and bring your sUAS with charged batteries. We’ll bring cones and other supplies. We will be meeting at the Fort Bend County Fairgrounds (4310 Hwy. 36).

If you can’t make this flight, please plan to join us for later flights; for more information about this group and our flight schedule visit the Fort Bend County Unified Public Drone Operators Group page.